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Even by Hollywood standards, 2023 was pretty wild. Strikes, scandals, surprises, and smashes! There were those who struck it big and those who swung and missed! Plenty of winners and unfortunately a few losers. The Hollywood Reporter looks back at some of Hollywoods biggest success stories and most embarrassing missteps of 2023.

Mad Men began life, creator-executive producer Matthew Weiner reminded Sunday backstage at the Emmys, as a spec script he penned eight years ago and spent several of those gathering dust on a shelf. But the show achieved the ultimate by becoming basic cables first original drama to earn a victory for top drama series. As

Tom Hanks has responded to Tuesdays release of video from 2004 of him performing alongside a man dressed in blackface and sporting an Afro wig and leopard-print toga, acknowledging that parts of the event were hideously offensive and appalling.

On the night of April 2, Charlie Rose walked into Gabriels Bar & Restaurant, a Lincoln Center eatery thats popular among New Yorks media elite. Al Pacino had just left, while the state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who recently filed a civil lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein and The Weinstein Co., entered only minutes before the

The Disney family may have given up the reins of its business decades ago, but there is still no shortage of powerful families in media holding sway. Shari Redstone controls Paramount Global, though for how long remains unclear as she considers a sale. The Ochs Sulzbergers still dominate the board of The New York Times.